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E D U C A T I O N   

MFA   Yale School of Drama, Dramaturgy/Dramatic Criticism, 2015         

BFA    The Theatre School at DePaul, Dramaturgy/Dramatic Criticism, 2008

  

A R T I S T I C   L E A D E R S H I P                          

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER, Under the Radar, The Public Theater, 2020-present

LINE PRODUCER, The Public Theater, 2016-present

PERFORMANCE CURATOR AND CO-FOUNDER, Salonathon, 2011-2012; 2020  PRODUCER, BRIC Arts Open Festival, April 2019

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR/CURATOR, Pop! A Pop-Up Performance Festival, 2016      

ARTIST SERVICES COORDINATOR, International Festival of Arts and Ideas,                  2014-2015                                                                               

CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, Yale Cabaret, 2013-2014 Season

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER, Collaboraction (Chicago), 2011-2012

LINE PRODUCER, Atlantic Theater Company's The Next Page, 2009

L I T E R A R Y  /  I N S T I T U T I O N A L   D R A M A T U R G Y                           LITERARY ASSOCIATE, Yale Repertory Theatre, 2014-2015 Season                       

LITERARY MANAGER, The House Theatre of Chicago, 2010-2011                         LITERARY APPRENTICE, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, 2010-2011 Season      LITERARY ASSOCIATE (INTERIM), Atlantic Theater Company, 2009 

LITERARY INTERN, Atlantic Theater Company, 2008

E D I T O R I A L                                                                                                             MANAGING EDITOR: Yale Theater Management Knowledge Base, 2015-2016

RESEARCH ASSISTANT: Sustain Arts at Harvard Kennedy School of                                Government’s Hauser Institute, 2015-2016               

RESEARCH ASSISTANT: Surveillance Technologies in Performance by

          Elise Morrison, 2015                                                                    

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT: Theater Magazine, 2012-2013  

 

T E A C H I N G , G U E S T   S P E A K I N G,  &  U N I V E R S I T Y  S E R V I C E

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, Theater Department, Connecitcut College, 2020-present

GUEST LECTURER, Dramaturg and Design, The New School, 2020

GUEST SPEAKER, Advanced Dramaturgy, The Theatre School at DePaul, 2020

GUEST SPEAKER, Intro to Dramaturgy, Yale College, 2019                                     DEPARTMENT ASSISTANT, Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, Yale School of

          Drama, 2013-2015    

COORDINATOR, Hot Topics Lectures Series for Global Performance and 

          Theater, Yale School of Drama, 2013-2015

MENTOR, Dwight/Edgewood Project, Yale School of Drama, 2013                        TEACHING ASSISTANT, Editing + Publishing Workshop, Yale School of 

          Drama, 2012

DEPARTMENT ASSISTANT, Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, The Theatre

          School at DePaul, 2005-2008

P R O D U C T I O N   W O R K 

P R O D U C I N G                      

                                                                         

THE LINE* (Jessica Blank & Erik Jensen), Line Producer, The Public Theater Digital Summer Season, 2020

A SHINING LIGHT: An Online Benefit (Steve Cosson), Line Producer, The Civilians Theater Company, 2020                                         

THE VAGRANT TRILOGY (Mona Mansour, dir. Mark Wing-Davey), Line Producer, The Public Theater, (On hold until 2021)   

A BRIGHT ROOM CALLED DAY (Tony Kushner, dir. Oskar Eustis), Line Producer, The Public Theater, 2019    

SOFT POWER* (David Henry Hwang, Jeanine Tesori, dir. Leigh Silverman), Line Producer, The Public Theater, 2019

SELF PORTRAITS* (Phillip Howze, dir Stevie Walker-Webb), Producer, The Open Festival at BRIC Arts, 2019                                                    

WE’RE ONLY ALIVE FOR A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME* (David Cale, dir. Robert Falls), Line Producer, The Public Theater, 2019

GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY* (Conor McPherson), Line Producer, The Public Theater, 2018 NOW AWAITING RETURN TO BROADWAY 2021

CYPRUS AVENUE (David Ireland, dir. Vicky Featherstone), Line Producer, The Public Theater, 2018                                                                  

MLIMA’S TALE* (Lynn Nottage, dir. Jo Bonney), Line Producer, The Public Theater, 2018

BLACK LIGHT (Daniel Alexander Jones), Line Producer, Joe’s Pub @ The Public Theater, 2018      

LET IT SHINE (Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit), Line Producer, Joe's Pub, 2017                                                  

LAZARUS Film Shoot (dir. Ivo Van Howe), Producer, New York Theatre Workshop, 2016

YALE SCHOOL OF DRAG (3rd Annual), Producer, Co-Curator, Co-Host, Yale Cabaret, 2015

LOOK UP, SPEAK NICELY, AND DON'T TWIDDLE YOUR FINGERS ALL THE TIME* (Emily Zemba, dir. Ato Blankson-Wood), Producer, Yale Cabaret, 2014

MYSTERY BOY* (Chris Bannow & Helen Jaksch), Creative Producer, Yale Cabaret, 2014

WE FIGHT WE DIE (Timothy Guillot, dir by Jireh Holder), Creative Producer, Yale Cabaret 2014

YALE SCHOOL OF DRAG (2nd Annual), Producer, Co-Curator, Yale Cabaret, 2014

HAVE I NONE (Edward Bond, dir. Jessica Holt), Creative Producer, Yale Cabaret, 2014

DERIVATIVES* (by Jabari Brisport & Ensemble, dir. Cole Lewis), Creative Producer, Yale Cabaret, 2013

RADIO HOUR* (by Paula Bennett, Steve Brush, Tyler Keiffer), Creative Producer, Yale Cabaret, 2013

CHICAGOLAND THE MUSICAL* (by Ike Holter), Producer, Chopin Theatre, Chicago, 2010

THE NEXT PAGE Reading Series, Line Producer, Atlantic Theater Company, 2009

F E S T I V A L   P R O D U C I N G     

        

UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL 2021, Associate Producer and Producer for the Devised Theater Working Group, The Public Theater

           Artists include: 600 Highwaymen, Whitney White & Peter Mark Kendall, Teatro Anónimo, Piehold, The Javaad Alipoor Company, Inua Ellam

           Devised Theater Working Group: Savon Bartley, Nile Harris, Miranda Haymon, Eric Lockley, Raelle Myrick-Hodges, Mia Rovegno, Justin Elizabeth Sayre,     

           and Mariana Valencia

ONASSIS FESTIVAL: DEMOCRACY IS COMING, Festival Producer, The Public Theater, Joe’s Pub, LaMaMa, Astor Place, 2019

          Artists include: Lena Kitsopoulou; Euripides Laskaridis; 600 Highwaymen; Choir! Choir! Choir! w/ Patti Smith

UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL 2019, Festival Producer, The Public, Joe's Pub, Skirball, BRIC Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, SVA Film, 2019             

          Artists include: Tania el Khoury; Manual Cinema; Flaco Navaja; New Saloon; Lola Arias; Rude Mechs; Ifeoma Fafunwa; Plexus Polaire; The Kilbanes

UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL 2018, Festival Producer, The Public, Joe's Pub, Skirball, BRIC Arts, Japan Society, LaMaMa, 2018

          Artists include: Toshi Reagon; Andrew Schneider; Nature Theater of Oklahoma; Dickie Beau; Wang Chong; Choir! Choir! Choir! w/ David Byrne 

POP! A POP-UP PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL, Producer/Artistic Director/Curator, The Party Line/Various Venues & Public Spaces in Bushwick, Brooklyn, 2016

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND IDEAS, Main Stage Artist Services Coordinator, 2015

          Artists include: Mark Morris Dance Group; Angélique Kidjo; Ibeyi; Darlene Love; Lucinda Williams; Kurt Elling with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND IDEAS, Main Stage Artist Services Coordinator, 2014

          Artists include: Lalah Hathaway & Ruben Studdard; Regina Carter; The Gloaming; Martha Redbone Roots Project

SKETCHBOOK FESTIVAL (12th Annual), Associate Producer, Curatorial Team, Collaboraction, 2012           

          Artists include: Dean Evans; Meredith Miller; Ike Holter; The New Colony; Carlos Murillo; Kevin O'Donnell + Kasey Foster; Kristin Idaszak; Greg Moss 

STRAPPED Play Festival, Producing Director, The Inconvenience, Chicago 2010

POST TRAUMATIC Play Festival, Producing Director, The Inconvenience, Chicago 2009

    

P E R F O R M A N C E  C U R A T I O N

SALONATHON, "SalonathOnline" weekly online series, Curator, 2020

          Artists include: Ato Blankson-Wood; Dickie Beau; Whitney White; Arturo Soria; Modesto Flako Jimenez; Michael Breslin + Patrick Foley; Chalia La Tour

UNDER THE RADAR'S DEVISED THEATER WORKING GROUP, Curation Team, 2019          

          Artists include: Sean Donovan; Aya Ogawa; Lorelei Ramirez; Sam Schanwald with Caitlin Ryan O'Connell; Eva Von Schweinitz; Whitney White

DESSERT: A QUEER PERFORMANCE SERIES, Curator, Next Door at New York Theater Workshop, 2018

          Artists include: Ryan Haddad; Joseph Keckler; Brian Rady; Sam Schandwald; Maybe Burke;Shannon Matesky's Queer Abstract; Sylvan Oswald; Jerome Ellis

UNDER THE RADAR'S DEVISED THEATER WORKING GROUP, Curation Team, 2018

          Artists include: George & Co.; harunalee; Kareem M. Lucas; Modesto Flako Jimenez; Annie Saunders with Becca WolffPeter Mills Weiss & Julia Mounsey

POP! A POP-UP PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL, Producer/Artistic Director/Curator, The Party Line/Various Venues & Public Spaces in Bushwick, Brooklyn, 2016

          Artists include: Ato Blankson-Wood; Shannon Matesky; James Cusati-Moyer; Hunter Kaczorowski; Lydia Blaisdell; Lauren Zeftel; Doll Parts; Phillip Howze 

SALONATHON, "Applied Studies Showcase" weekly series, Curator, Chicago's Beauty Bar, 2011-2012

          Artists include: Joel Kim Booster; Ike Holter; Tien Tran; The Fly Honeys; Philip Sparkle; Shannon Matesky; Kasey Foster; Blake Russell; Calamity West

D R A M A T U R G Y          

SUPERSTITIONS* (by Emily Zemba, dir. Jenna Worsham), The Pool/New Ohio Theater, upcoming Fall 2021

SELF PORTRAITS* (by Phillip Howze, dir. Margot Bordelon), Lincoln Center Education, 2016

DEER AND THE LOVERS* (by Emily Zemba, dir. Sara Holdren), 10th Carlotta Festival, Yale School of Drama, 2015

THE SEAGULL (dir. Jessica Holt) Iseman Theater/Director’s Thesis, Yale School of Drama, 2014

TINY BOYFRIEND* (by Phillip Howze, dir. Sara Holdren), Langston Hughes Festival, Yale School of Drama, 2013

LOTTIE IN THE LATE AFTERNOON* (by Amelia Roper, dir. Ethan Heard), 8th Carlotta Festival, Yale School of Drama, 2013

THE TWINS WOULD LIKE TO SAY (dir. Whitney Dibo & Lauren Dubowski), Yale Cabaret, 2013

HIT THE WALL* (by Ike Holter, dir. Eric Hoff), Steppenwolf's Garage Repertory Series, 2012

OBLIVION* (by Carly Mensch, dir. Matt Miller), Steppenwolf’s First Look Repertory of New Work, 2011

LOOM* (by Ike Holter, dir. Dav Yendler), The Inconvenience’s Fresh Meat Reading Series, 2011

HURRAH FOR THE NEXT WHO DIES* (by Mark Mason, dir. Damon Kiely), The Athenaeum, The Theatre School at DePaul, 2008

THE SPARROW* (Conceived by Nathan Allen with words by Chris Mathews and Jake Minton), The House Theatre of Chicago & Steppenwolf Garage, 2007

HAMLET (dir. Lisa Portes), Merle Reskin Theater, The Theatre School at DePaul, 2007

THE TRIAL (dir. Dexter Bullard), Merle Reskin Theater, The Theatre School at DePaul, 2006

THE BFG (dir. Ernie Nolan), Chicago Playworks for Families and Young Audiences, 2006

 

D I R E C T I N G                 

COME BACK RICHARD SIMMONS* (conceived with and written by Emily Zemba), Ars Nova’s ANT FEST, 2017

WE KNOW EDIE LA MINX HAD A GUN* (written with Helen Jaksch and Emily Zemba), Brooklyn's Standard Toykraft, The Party Line, 2016

ROSE AND THE RIME (by Nathan Allen, Chris Mathews, Jake Minton), Yale Cabaret, 2014

WE KNOW EDIE LA MINX HAD A GUN* (written with Helen Jaksch and Emily Zemba), Yale Cabaret, 2013

VIGILANTE* (by Ike Holter), Collaboraction's Sketchbook XII, Chicago, 2012

KURT VONNEGUT’S 2BRØ2B* (co-adaptor with Ike Holter) City Lit Art of Adaptation Festival, Chicago, 2011

CHICAGOLAND THE MUSICAL* (by Ike Holter), Chopin Theatre, The Inconvenience, Chicago, 2010

Assistant Directing:

ANGELS IN AMERICA: PARTS 1 AND 2 (dir. Charles Newell), Court Theatre, Chicago, 2012

ODRADEK* (by Brett Nevue, dir. Dexter Bullard), The House Theatre of Chicago, 2010

GIRLS VS. BOYS* (by Nathan Allen, Chris Mathews, Jake Minton, dir. Nathan Allen), The House Theatre of Chicago, 2010

HATFIELD AND McCOY* (by Shawn Pfautsch, dir. Matthew Hawkins), The House Theatre of Chicago, 2007

 

                                                                                                *world premiere

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